Between Imitation and Innovation: The Transfer and Hybridization of Productive Models in the International Automobile Industry / Edition 198

by Robert Boyer, Elsie Charron, Ulrich Jïrgens, Steven Tolliday

Overview

Recent years have seen intense debates among management and academics on the rise of "lean production" and "Japanization." This book examines in detail the actual practice of transfer and adaptation of productive models into the auto industry. Case studies cover the Japanese transplant experience in North America, and the global experience of hybrid production systems in Europe, Latin America, and Asia.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780198293682
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Publication date:	02/18/1999
Edition description:	198th ed.
Pages:	414
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.30(h) x 1.20(d)
Lexile:	1450L (what's this?)

About the Author

Centre d'Etudes Prospectives d'Economie Mathematique Appliquees a la Planification

National Center of Scientific Research

Wissenschaftszentrum, Berlin

University of Leeds

Table of Contents

1. Introduction: Between Imitation and Innovation: The Transfer and Hybridization of Productive Models in the International Automobile Industry, Tolliday, Boyer, Charron, and JürgensPart I. Theory and History2. Hybridization and Models of Production: Geography, History, and Theory, Boyer3. The Diffusion and Transformation of Fordism: Britain and Japan Compared, TollidayPart II. Between Transfer and Hybridization4. Making Toyota in America: Evidence from the Kentucky Transplant 1986-1994, Mishina5. Stability and Change at NUMMI, Adler, Goldoftas, and Levine6. Mazda and Ford at Flat Rock: Transfer and Hybridization of the Japanese Model, Babson7. The Japanese Transplants in North America: Production Organization, Location, and Research and Development, Florida, Jenkins, and Smith8. Hybridization of the Japanese Production System in North America, the Newly Industrializing Economies, South-East Asia, and Europe: Contrasted Configurations, AboPart III. Between Adaptation and Innovation9. The NedCar Experience: The Configuration of Dutch, Swedish, and Japanese Ideas about Car Manufacturing, Dankbaar10. FASA Renault: Innovation in Productive Flexibility and Job Security, Charron11. The Transfer and Hybridization of New Models of Production in the Brazilian Automobile Industry, Fleury and Salerno12. Ford's Hermosillo Plant: The Trajectory of Development of a Hybrid Model, Carrillo and Montiel13. Implanting Change: The Role of ‘Indigenous Transplants' in Transforming the German Productive Model, Jürgens14. Volkswagen's Shanghai Plant: Between Chinese Tradition and Modernization Strategy, Kiefer15. Saturn: A Different Kind of Company?, Pil and Rubinstein16. Conclusion: Transplants, Hybridization, and Globalization: What Lessons for the Future, Tolliday, Boyer, Charron, and Jürgens